GIS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Geographic Information System (GIS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GIS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GIS over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 321 343
Rank change year-on-year +32 +22 +86
Contract jobs citing GIS 54 69 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.67% 2.68% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 39 74
10th Percentile £320 £360 £354
25th Percentile £400 £406 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.84% -11.71%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £550
90th Percentile £618 £650 £634
UK median daily rate £455 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -9.00% +2.56% -2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 3
10th Percentile - - £16.18
25th Percentile - £11.00 £17.94
Median hourly rate £29.80 £13.50 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +120.74% -37.93% -67.78%
75th Percentile - £16.12 £24.06
90th Percentile - £62.36 £24.93
UK median hourly rate £29.80 £16.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +84.86% -28.31% -57.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

GIS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,023 2,570 3,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.72% 12.68% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,824 2,528
10th Percentile £313 £313 £335
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £594
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £524 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.78% -0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 99 110
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.50 £21.21
25th Percentile £22.85 £17.85 £28.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -29.76% +62.71%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.55 £68.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.00 £75.98
UK median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.49% -33.33% +33.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GIS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GIS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GIS in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GIS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +5 14 £431 -28.13% 21
South East +48 13 £550 +33.33% 36
Midlands +25 13 £513 +41.38% 12
West Midlands +20 11 £600 +65.52% 8
North West +14 10 £400 -21.95% 13
Scotland +2 8 £460 -3.16% 13
South West +41 4 £413 -21.43% 17
Yorkshire 0 4 £595 -0.83% 3
East Midlands - 2 £425 - 4
East of England +21 1 £500 - 29
Northern Ireland -10 1 £500 - 4
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.11%) ArcGIS
2 3 (5.56%) Smallworld
3 2 (3.70%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (3.70%) GeoServer
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Spatial
3 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (11.11%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.70%) Maximo
2 2 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.85%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) AWS
2 12 (22.22%) Azure
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (14.81%) Serverless
4 7 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (11.11%) Collibra
5 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.85%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) Geospatial Data
2 7 (12.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (11.11%) Spatial Data
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database
4 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 5 (9.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (5.56%) Power BI
7 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.70%) MSDE
7 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.70%) ObjectStore
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.85%) Big Data
8 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.85%) DTS
8 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) GitLab
1 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.70%) GDB
2 2 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.85%) Mocha
General
1 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Legal
4 2 (3.70%) Local Government
4 2 (3.70%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.85%) Finance
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Military
5 1 (1.85%) Publishing
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Architect
1 10 (18.52%) Developer
2 8 (14.81%) Consultant
3 7 (12.96%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (11.11%) GIS Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Solutions Consultant
5 5 (9.26%) GIS Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.41%) Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Migration Specialist
6 4 (7.41%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Data Migration Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) GIS Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.70%) Administrator
8 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.70%) DBA
8 2 (3.70%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.70%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) PostGIS
2 6 (11.11%) Kafka
2 6 (11.11%) SOAP
3 5 (9.26%) AWS CDK
3 5 (9.26%) React
4 4 (7.41%) .NET
4 4 (7.41%) GeoJSON
5 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.56%) Node.js
5 3 (5.56%) RESTful
6 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.70%) Google Maps API
6 2 (3.70%) KML
6 2 (3.70%) Leaflet
6 2 (3.70%) MapLibre
6 2 (3.70%) Middleware
6 2 (3.70%) Spring
6 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.85%) Jest
7 1 (1.85%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) SCADA
2 7 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (12.96%) Operational Technology
3 6 (11.11%) IoT
4 4 (7.41%) Replication
5 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.70%) Clustering
7 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.85%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) Analytics
1 12 (22.22%) DevOps
2 11 (20.37%) Data Governance
3 10 (18.52%) Agile
3 10 (18.52%) ETL
4 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.81%) Data Management
4 8 (14.81%) Data Migration
4 8 (14.81%) Data Modelling
4 8 (14.81%) Migration
5 7 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (12.96%) Asset Management
6 6 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 6 (11.11%) Data Mapping
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.26%) RBAC
7 5 (9.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) Python
2 16 (29.63%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (11.11%) Perl
3 6 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 5 (9.26%) Java
4 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.56%) Bicep
5 3 (5.56%) Magik
6 2 (3.70%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) PMP
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.26%) GDPR
3 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Grafana
2 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Perfmon
3 1 (1.85%) SCOM
3 1 (1.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.37%) ESRI
3 9 (16.67%) SAP
4 7 (12.96%) Oracle
5 6 (11.11%) Databricks
5 6 (11.11%) Informatica
6 2 (3.70%) Google
6 2 (3.70%) Mapbox
7 1 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.85%) IBM
7 1 (1.85%) Sparx
7 1 (1.85%) VMware